Weekend Manager, News Standards

Versant is seeking a Standards Manager to oversee weekend coverage across MSNBC and CNBC, coordinating across editorial teams to achieve the best journalism outcomes, ensuring compliance with ethical guidelines, and fostering a culture of accuracy, fairness, and transparency in news reporting. Reporting into the Vice President for News Standards, this manager will be part of the Versant News Standards Team and provide support and guidance to editorial teams across cable, digital and audio platforms. The role will have a particular emphasis on planning and coordinating Standards guidance during and in preparation for the weekends. They will work with editors and producers of weekend shows and coverage to set and maintain editorial and ethical guidelines and safeguard the credibility and integrity of our journalism on those platforms. Responsibilities: Help maintain the reputation, journalistic integrity and editorial independence of our news organizations. Work with the senior level editorial team on reviewing reports for accuracy, fairness and adequate sourcing. Primary relationships will include weekend shows and desk editors. Help establish overall news division-wide standards policies and guidelines. Provide advice to CNBC and MSNBC journalists (both on air and off) on news standards. Provide real-time guidance on breaking news stories to ensure coverage is accurate and ethical Review and offer guidance on sensitive video and images and their suitability for airing/publishing on Versant platforms Ensure that new and current employees are continually educated on MSNBC and CNBC’s Standards & Practices policies – across all platforms Manage corrections, retractions, and responses to complaints or challenges to published content